This prog demos the problem: 

> 'ls' -1|tail -6 |perl -CSD -e'use 5.14.0; while (<>) {
print
}
print "opening dir\n";
opendir(my $dh, ".");
my @files =  grep { /^[^.]/ } readdir $dh;
my @sfiles=sort @files;
my $start= @sfiles-6;
for (my $i=$start; $i<@sfiles;++$i) {
        printf "%s\n", ${sfiles[$i]};
}
'
zwadobef.ttf
-chan.ttf
&#12415;&#12363;&#12385;&#12419;&#12435;-p.ttf
&#12415;&#12363;&#12385;&#12419;&#12435;-pb.ttf
&#12415;&#12363;&#12385;&#12419;&#12435;-ps.ttf
&#12415;&#12363;&#12385;&#12419;&#12435;.ttf
opening dir
zwadobef.ttf
&#156;-chan.ttf
み&#139;ち&#130;&#131;&#130;&#147;-p.ttf
み&#139;ち&#130;&#131;&#130;&#147;-pb.ttf
み&#139;ち&#130;&#131;&#130;&#147;-ps.ttf
み&#139;ち&#130;&#131;&#130;&#147;.ttf

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The output read in from STDIN is correct -- how do I get the output from readdir to be correct -- NOTE: the filenames returned by readdir aren't usable (i.e. testing them with "-f" or such returns "no such file"....)...

Unfortunately you'll have to imagine how this would look, since <code> doesn't protect unicode chars... it encodes them. The first bit of output doesn't look that way on a terminal... it outputs japanese hiragana characters...

Where does someone file a bug against perlmonks?...sigh...

In reply to how to unicode filenames? by perl-diddler

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